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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: elShoggotho on Sun, 22 August 2010, 08:43:25
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A friend of mine recently acquired an IBM SK-8806 keyboard with some nonstandard labeling. Does anyone know what to make of that one? Is it a standard layout for some program?
(http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/9153/img0037ul.jpg)
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It appears to be an Icelandic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_alphabet) keyboard, with all the letters. Actually, it's US-International. See Below. The beta-looking thing is a double-s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F).
I really want a keyboard with a thorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)). It's my favorite English letter.
With that keyboard, you can type words like Eyjafjallajökull at up to 25WPM!
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Used your links to find my own info. It's US-International layout. The intent is to give users the ability to input special characters in an otherwise standard US layout.
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Used your links to find my own info. It's US-International layout. The intent is to give users the ability to input special characters in an otherwise standard US layout.
I stand corrected. I should have recognized it, because I just read this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout) yesterday, but I guess I missed it. It's too bad this layout isn't available for the Thinkpad T60/400/500 series.
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What is its market value ?
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I stand corrected. I should have recognized it, because I just read this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout) yesterday, but I guess I missed it. It's too bad this layout isn't available for the Thinkpad T60/400/500 series.
Not that hard th get those symbols on a thinkpad
(http://www.4keyboard.com/images/stickers/engusintertrans/usinternat_trans_blue1.jpg)
The finish is just perfect for the TP keyboard I have them on my X200t
http://www.4keyboard.com/englishusinternationaltransparentkeyboardsticker-p-232.html